2025 bills / S.B. 50
S.B. 50 Limited Purpose Local Government Entities Board of Trustees Compensation Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill removes the cap on how much a member of a limited purpose local government entity's board of trustees can be paid. It also requires the board to hold a public hearing before it can increase that compensation.
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Official description
- eliminates the compensation limit for a member of a board of trustees of a limited purpose local government entity
- requires a board of trustees of a limited purpose local government entity to hold a public hearing on a proposed compensation increase before implementing the compensation increase
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 50 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 50 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 4 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee: vote to approve it · Jan 24, 2025Who voted how
- 26 yes, 0 no, 3 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Jan 31, 2025Who voted how
- 27 yes, 0 no, 2 absentFinal Senate vote · Feb 3, 2025Who voted how
- 5 yes, 0 no, 5 absentHouse Political Subdivisions Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 7, 2025Who voted how
- 69 yes, 0 no, 6 absentFinal House vote · Feb 19, 2025Who voted how
Hearings and debates
- Jan 24, 2025 Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee▶ Watch
- Feb 7, 2025 House Political Subdivisions Committee▶ Watch
- 31/1/2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- Mar 2, 2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- 13/2/2025 House floor debate▶ Watch
- 13/2/2025 House floor debate▶ Watch
- 19/2/2025 House floor debate▶ Watch